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  • Posted By: wferris @ 06/03/2008 11:01:43 PM

    THINK about this for just a second !! The likely spin is she will turn down the offer and asks that a woman not be asked to perserve 2012 for herself. i.e. IF Obama picks another qualified woman to run as VP (thier are a couple very qualified) Obama takes the general election. But if he were to pick Edwards or Richardson a male VP, McCain probably takes the general election and leaves the door wide open for Clinton in 2012. After all that is her quest she could care less about unity or Dems in the white house this term. She wants to be prez and damn the torpedos full speed ahead. And damn Barack Obama for stealing her entitlement !! She is going to skin the cat which ever way gets her what she wants, period. Unless she can get him k..... before the convention. Slick Willy and Co. feel duped and that doesn't fly in thier world.
    Clintons have no integrity never will.

  • Posted By: coll.env @ 06/03/2008 11:01:08 PM

    Hillary and Bill Clinton have far to much garbage to carry back into the Whitehouse !!
    Sen. Obama is going to bring a new Change in our Country with the Aamerican people for onnce will be the center of this change !!
    Bill and Hillary have had their day in the sun, now at least for once try to be gracious and step aside,Please STEP ASIDE !!!

  • Posted By: JWilly48519 @ 06/03/2008 11:00:28 PM

    I think McCain should say to the Republican Party "hang on, it's gonna be a helluva ride", and announce that he intends to govern as a centrist, and he wants Hillary as *his* Veep. He and Hillary work together very well, and she could put aside her liberal-to-get-the-nomination facade and go back to being herself as a moderate. He wouldn't have to pander to the right wingers and religious wing for votes and money, because her organization and donors plus his independent fans, the Reagan Democrats and the dormant-but-still-viable moderate wing of the Republican party, if combined, would easily deliver plenty of votes and plenty of money. Barr could run comfortably on the far right without hurting him in the general. Obama would have to struggle with his left wing core for permission to try to appeal to the middle, where he's had great difficulty all campaign long. McCain and Hillary together could pledge to maintain a centrist ideological balance on the SC, thereby defusing one of the strongest arguments for social-liberal-otherwise moderate independents to vote for Obama. And, in four years when he's 75, if he wanted to retire she could run for the top job with her own centrist coalition, including the revitalized moderate Republicans and those Dems who want to join her in the middle and win.

  • Posted By: mitch1965 @ 06/03/2008 11:00:24 PM

    Obama doesnt need to choose her. He dosent need Bill Clinton wandering around the white house trying to steal the spotlight.

  • Posted By: Snorkeldorf @ 06/03/2008 10:55:22 PM

    Speaking of reaching across the aisle, there is a far more qualified woman in the U.S. Senate than Hillary Clinton. That would be Olympia Snowe (R-Maine). I can't think of a better way to signal his intent to unify the nation than for Barack Obama to select Snowe as his running mate. She's renowned for garnering support from both sides of the aisle and getting her bills passed.

  • Posted By: clover @ 06/03/2008 10:41:32 PM

    kathyfnp: Marxist? Really? What about Obama or his policy positions is Marxist? He and Hillary share the same views on a whole range of policy positions. Her supporters WILL fall into line, especially women. Why? One word: abortion. Obama is pro-choice, McCain is anti-choice, enough said. It's interesting that you harp about being called a racist for opposing Obama, which I don't think is true; you're just misinformed. Why must I be sexist for supporting Obama. My wife, my mother and every other female friend or relative I know plan on voting for Obama and a few even said so before the primary season was over that they would vote for McCain before voting for Clinton, are they sexist too?

    • Posted By: summer1216 @ 06/03/2008 10:52:16 PM

      The word ???racism??? implies some kind of malice. If people just vote identity politics, this is not racist. Voting or withholding a vote out of fear or spite or outright dislike of a person???s race can more properly be called racist.

  • Posted By: clover @ 06/03/2008 10:51:50 PM

    Sorry for the reprint I didn't think it posted the first one.

  • Posted By: punch4me @ 06/03/2008 10:48:19 PM

    Only way the Democrates can win is a duo knock out pucnh. Obama/Clinton. This will work. Otherwise another 4 years of Bush, in disguise of John McCain

  • Posted By: womanofthefuture @ 06/03/2008 10:46:28 PM

    Dear Mr. Fineman, Perhaps you are so deeply immersed in the field that you have lost touch with reality. Everyone knows that the Clinton Camp has announced a willingness to accept the Vice Presidential spot on the ticket. It does not matter how the media tries to spin this; the ball is clearly in Obama's court. If she is not on the ticket, it will represent an inability to compromise (an "I am the decider" mentality, if you will).

  • Posted By: sherrybb @ 06/03/2008 10:44:32 PM

    The part that makes me the saddest about all of this is that there is no doubt in my mind who would be the better president...hilary by a landslide. I will support Obama, because it would be a tragedy to have 4 more years of Bush. I have watched MSNBC for years, I subsrcribe to Newsweek. NEVER did i think Fox would be more fair and balanced.

  • Posted By: kathyfnp @ 06/03/2008 9:59:46 PM

    Apologies for my last post. I had written and pasted and it rolled over. Sorry for the lack of clarity.

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